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On the pretence of researching her latest project, a New Zealand writer leaves her life and bolts to Berlin when she discovers her late mother may have passed on the gene for Huntington's disease.
'Chaotic modernity is . . . narrated with astute clarity in Bridget van der Zijpp's new novel. Leaving behind her past to run away to Berlin, the narrator of I Laugh Me Broken descends into a personal spiral in the city as she becomes undone' i-D
'Gives a sense of the way that life continues to be beautiful, funny, and worth living even when we're in the middle of wrestling with questions that have no good answers . . . I didn't expect a novel about a woman deciding whether to find out if she has a horrible disease to make me laugh so much' Sara Taylor, author of The Lauras
'A beautifully written novel, keenly observed, with a vivid cast of characters.' Saga Magazine
'A poignant time capsule, a surprising love story and a clever take on the hapless-woman-finds-herself genre' New Zealand Herald
Praise for Bridget van der Zijpp
'Packed full of astute observation, spinning towards a crisis which doesn't have a predictable outcome' Linda Herrick, New Zealand Herald
'Finely tuned observations of relationships and identity, and how easily they can be the making or undoing of each other' Sam Finnemore, New Zealand Listener
'An adult, thought-provoking and gripping story on a real social issue' Steve Walker, Sunday Star-Times
Bridget van der Zijpp is the author of three novels: Misconduct, In the Neighbourhood of Fame and I Laugh Me Broken. Misconduct was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Best First Book Prize, South East Asia and the Pacific Region. It was also shortlisted for the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Best First Book of Fiction, and was also included in the NZ Listener Best Books of 2008. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University.
